In St. Petersburg, they did not allow the march in defense of the media in the center

All applications for the "Marshal of Pravda" in support of the Russian media in the city center planned by the St. Petersburg opposition on April 13, the committee on legality and law and order was rejected .

Boris Vishnevsky
Deputy of the Zachs from the Yabloko party

We were offered to go to Polyustrovsky Park. We will not go there.

As the organizers explain, the situation with the Russian media was the reason for this action: it is pressure on the Rain TV channel, the chief editor of Lenti.ru Galina Timchenko was dismissed, and the Blogs blocked several opposition sites and blogs. Deputies from the LDPR party Andrei Lugovoi and Vadim Money are going to introduce a bill to the State Duma this week, according to which blogs with a daily audience will be equated with the media, the Vedomosti newspaper reports . Such equalization means that the authors of popular blogs will have to indicate age -related restrictions, check the reliability of information, observe the “day of silence” and not disseminate information about the private life of citizens. The authors of the blogs will pay taxes on advertising revenues, and the content will fall into the register of Roskomnadzor.